Quotes by Broun, Heywood

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

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Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways --and all are right! At least all will do.

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Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.

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Men are blind in their own cause.

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A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

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Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

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The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

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Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

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The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.

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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.

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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

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Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.

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